Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. The Funtown reference is powerful because it captures one of the ways that Jim Crow segregation and white supremacy played out for children and teenagers. For example, consider the comments of members of the "Committee" [the regularly featured White teenagers on that show] about boys having it worse than girls because boys weren't supposed to dance. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. Waters would rush home . It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. Deane also presented British artist Helen Shapiro, who sang her Baltimore hit, "Tell Me What He Said," at about the time that she was touring England with The Beatles as one of her support acts. The producers of Diner wanted to include Buddy Deane footage in their film, but most of the shows were live and any tapes of this local period piece have been erased. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. The action of the musical takes place in 1962 and centers around Baltimore's teenage obsession with the television program The Corny Collins Show, a stand-in for an actual Baltimore production of the day, The Buddy Deane Show. They just wanted to know if you were real. Weve been searching for her for years, even Ricki Lake couldnt find her when she had her TV show., John Waters and members of the original cast of Hairspray. "Hairspray" is set in the 1960s and is based on a TV show called "The Buddy Deane Show," which featured Baltimore-area teenagers dancing to popular music but was canceled in 1964, after the . Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. This weekly time slot became known as "Special Guest Day" by the Deane Show's white performers and "Black Monday" by Baltimore's Black teens. The Hairspray Live! . While other radio hosts thought rock 'n' roll music was just a passing trend, refusing to play it in favor of pop songs, Deane played rock 'n' roll music on a regular basis. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). But most have settled down to a very straight life. Black History Month . But I was never a Deaner. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. I was able after a while to afford some clothes from Lees of Broadway (whose selection of belted coats and pegged pants made it the Saks Fifth Avenue of Deaners). It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. On Sept. 13, 1964, he introduced The Beatles before their concert at the Baltimore Civic Center, and a few days later, he and his family moved back to Arkansas. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. Kings mention of Funtown is preceded by references to lynch mobs, police brutality, and the airtight cage of poverty, and followed by references to hotel segregation and racial slurs. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . An then there was teased hair, replacing the 50s drape with a Buddy Deane look that so pervaded Baltimore culture (especially in East and South Baltimore) that its effect is still seen in certain neighborhoods of this great Hairdo Capital of the World. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. Influencers: Profiles of a Partnership 2022, How to Pitch Stories and Articles to IndieWire, John Waters Shares His 10 Favorite Films of 2022, 'Peter Von Kant' Tops List, John Waters to Write and Direct 'Liarmouth' from His Own Novel, Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 50 Films the Director Wants You to See, Oscars 2023: Best Animated Feature Predictions. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. The information used was obtained from WJZ. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. Baltimore teenagers rushed home to catch the show daily to listen to the popular music, watch their favorite dancers, copy their style and learn the new dances that were introduced almost every week. I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. It suggests a way of understanding race that allows viewers to disavow bigotryframed in the story as the belief that white and black Americans should live in separate sphereswithout acknowledging, confronting, or seeking to overturn the actual structures of discrimination. Greetings, Pat Brun.Thanks for commenting in this pancocojams discussion thread. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . What: The Buddy Deane Show was a teen rock-and-roll dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. By representing this realityin bubble-gum, technicolor clarityHairspray does something that pure documentation, at times, cant: It makes a difficult part of a nations history accessible (and entertaining) to millions of viewers. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. Hairspray was the actors first film, before Dead Poets Society, which came out the next year. Buddy Deane, a native of Pine Bluff, was one of the first radio hosts to understand the appeal of Rock n' Roll in its infancy, the host of a popular 60s teen dance show, the inspiration for a film and musical character in Hairspray, and so much more. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. Voters approve of . The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. With the rising pressures of integration, the producers decided that the show must either be integrated or canceled. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. by Based loosely on the 1988 film by John Waters, Hairspray centres on Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad (Carmel Rodrigues), who in 1962 wants nothing more than a chance to dance on the local pop music TV. His childhood nickname was Buddy. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. Hairspray is the gift that never stops giving, Waters told an adoring crowd at New Yorks IFC Center this past weekend, the theater where Hairspray first opened thirty years ago. There were threats and bomb scares; integrationists smuggled whites into the all-black shows to dance cheek-to-cheek on camera with blacks, and that was it. were the highest rated local TV show in America." Amazingly, Deane's show was aired live, two-and-a-half hours each day on five days a week with three hours on Saturday. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. One of the first ponytail princesses was Peanuts (Sharon Goldman, debuting at 14 in 58, Forest Park, Chicken Hop), who went on the show because Deaners were folk heroes. She remembers Paul Anka singing Put Your Head on My Shoulder to her on camera as she did just that. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Many parents and local officials were angry. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial Or dancing with other Committee members when you were supposed to be dancing with the guests (a very unpopular rule allowed this only every fourth dance). From 1957 to 1963, only white teens were allowed to attend the weekday broadcasts of the Buddy Deane Show, with the exception of one Monday each month when black teenagers filled the Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. He got a great review in The New York Times. Or Snuggle Dolls? I used to lie in bed at my parents house, and there was an African-American community up the street and they went by singing along to the radio. Originally known as The Buddy Deane Bandstand, the show first went on the air at 3 p.m. Sept. 9, 1957, and aired for two hours; the show often preceded the Mickey Mouse Club. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. I focused on the 1957-1964 television series The Buddy Deane Show in part because I'm interested in documenting old school African American originated line dances, and the Buddy Deane Show's 1958 or 1959 clip of The Madison appears to be the earliest surviving film of that dance.I believe that The Buddy Deane Show is important in part because it documents aspects of Americana such as the way the teenagers (or at least White teenagers] in the late 1950s and early 1960s dressed, danced, interacted, and also documented (through retrospective interviews such as the one quoted in Excerpt #2 of this post) attitudes and values of that time. (NWA Media). In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. GOD HELP US! But an intrepid group of local and . How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. After the screening, he was joined by Michael Musto and original cast membersLeslie Ann Powers (Penny Pingleton), JoAnn Havrilla (Prudence Pingleton), and Holter Graham (I.Q. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) In the beginning, there was Arlene. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. And according to Arlene, Buddy encouraged one popular Committee member (Buzzy Bennet) to teach himself to read so he could realize his dream of being a disc jockey. . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Buddy: Deane in the 50s when she worked for a record wholesaler and he was the top-rated disc jockey on WITHthe only DJ in town who played rock n roll for the kids. No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. To be selected you had to bring a character reference letter from your pastor, priest, or rabbi, qualify in a dance audition, and show in an interview (the Spotlight) that you had personality. At first the Committee had a revolving membership with no one serving longer than three months. The protesters wanted the races to mix. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. Perhaps the highest bouffants of all belonged to the Committee member who was my personal favorite: Pixie (who died several years later from a drug overdose). Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. [citation needed]. What: The Buddy Deane Show was a teen rock-and-roll dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. The first big stars were Bobbi Bums and Freddy Oswinkle, according to Arlene, but no matter how big anyone got, someone came along who was even bigger. Joe Cash and Joan Teves became the shows first royalty. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. I couldnt be bothered with education. You had to wear nylons. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. All the choreography in the movie prior to this was segregated by race, and now its all together, which is a very, very subtle reference to the theme of this movie.. (There was a token all-black program once a month on the show called "Negro Day" in the movie, a phrase that now drips with surreal period flavor but no black Committee, and the protests called for integrating the show.) She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. In 1963, the Civic Interest Group, an student integrationist group founded at Morgan State University, challenged this policy by obtaining tickets for black and white teens to attend the show on a day reserved for black teenagers. Hairspray movie was inspired by this show and was based off of the the events but unlike the movies, instead of the show being integrated, it was cancelled. http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-madison-line-dance-got-its-name-and.html, http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/al-brown-and-ray-bryant-madison-records.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Deane_Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film), http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/timeline-for-cultural-use-of-saying.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/on-hairsprays-25th-anniversary-buddydeane-committee-looks-back/2013/01/17/a45a1cc2-5c23-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html, http://theurbandaily.com/2011/06/01/black-music-moment-96-short-lived-integration-of-the-buddy-deane-show/. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. The Nicest Kids in Town! It was maddening: the Mashed Potatoes, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental, and, most important, the Madison, a complicated line dance that started here and later swept the country. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. Buddy Deane. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. 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Hairspray is John Waters most commercially successful film the 1988 dancing comedy spawned a hit Broadway musical, a movie and TV movie of that musical, plus multiple sequel and TV show offers that never saw the light of day. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), and aired on WJZ-TV (Channel 13), the ABC affiliate station in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. The Corny Collins Show is now integrated! Waters himself commented on the films revisionist history, I gave it a happy ending that it didnt have., Hairsprays happy ending gave the story an arc that appealed to Broadway and Hollywood producers. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. [citation needed] With an ear for music seasoned by many more years as a disc jockey than Clark, Deane also brought to his audience a wider array of white musical acts than were seen on American Bandstand. How Actress Rachel Hilsons Baltimore Roots Influence Her Work Today, The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is Much More Than a Chamber Orchestra, Jen Michalski Discusses New Short Story Collection The Company of Strangers. All on Pulaski Highway. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that was created by Zvi Shoubin and aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964.The show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unable to integrate black and white dancers. For many young people, being blocked from swimming pools, skating rinks, or dance shows like the Buddy Deane Show would be one of their first exposures to what King calls the feeling of forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness.. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. Romance was one thing; sex was another. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. Even doing commercials was expected. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) And the girl Deaners, God, hair-hoppers as we called them in Towson, the ones with the Etta Gowns, bouffant hairdos, and cha-cha heels. I remember it well, recalls Evanne. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. It was horrible/ says Joe. [citation needed]. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. Debuting at a mere 11 years of age, taking three buses every day to get to the show, wearing that wonderful white DA (created by her hairdresser father), and causing the first real sensation. I'll include some of those comments in an upcoming pancocojams series about that dance.However, it seems to me that The Buddy Deane Show is more important because it exemplifies the need to go back and understand how the past has influenced the present with regard to systemic racism in Baltimore, Maryland and elsewhere in the United States. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Linda reverently describes her Committee membership as the best experience I ever had in my life. They later became members of the Permanent Committee, the hall of fame that could come back to dance even after retiring. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. For example, Carole King appeared on the show playing her single "It Might as Well Rain Until September", nearly a decade before she burst to popularity with her landmark 1970 album, Tapestry. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. But as more and more kids (even Deane fans) did tum Joe College, many of the Committee made the mistake of not keeping up with the times. I had trunks of it. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. Penny nervously stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine Carver, is cut for being Black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. Still, as an historian of the television era that Hairspray so lovingly recreates, I believe the story also presents a more nuanced vision of how popular culture helped to educate white and black teenagers about racial hierarchies. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. Deane also played songs that other disc jockeys, including Dick Clark, refused to present to mostly white teen TV audiences because the acts sounded "too black" (e.g. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. Actor: Hairspray. I dont think Ill ever get over missing it, if you want to know the truth., Many of the Committee members spouses faced an even bigger adjustment. When Mary Lous husband gave me the long and complicated directions to their home on the phone, he ended with And there you will find, yes, Mary Lou Raines. He later confided that when he first started dating her, he had no idea of her early career. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. I had to get up there on time. . Theyd stand outside my home. Hairspray, which started as a camp film with a modest $2.7 million budget, grew into a popular and commercially successful Broadway musical and movie. I was honored, touched by it all.. They are still referred to, good naturedly by some, as the Ken and Barbie of the show. Gene, a member of the first Committee, and I underline first, later became president of the Board. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. | And although few will now admit to having been drapes, the styles at first were DAs (slicked back into the shape of a ducks tail), Detroits, and Waterfalls (flowing down the front) for the guys and ponytails and DAs for the girls, who wore full skirts with crinolins and three or four pairs of bobby socks. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. This assessment proved true when on Aug. 12, 1963 a group of black and white kids stormed the stage of "The Buddy Deane Show" and danced together. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. See production, box office & company info. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. And it was not unique: Dick Reids Record Hop in Charleston, West Virginia; Ginny Paces Saturday Hop in Houston, Texas; John Dixons Dixon on Disc in Mobile, Alabama; Bill Sanderss show in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Dewey Phillipss Pop Shop in Memphis, Tennessee; and Chuck Allens Teen Tempo in Jackson, Mississippi, were all segregated dance shows. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' Every week she had a different dothe Double Bubble, the Artichoke, the Airlifteach topped off by her special trademark, suggested by her mother, the bow. On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. I'm sure they could have reached out to me via these posts, but did not. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . It's not just about police brutality. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. The Buddy Deane Show was over. Not one of the Committee members, the ones chosen to be on the show every daythe Baltimore version of the Mouseketeers, the nicest kids in town, as they were billed. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. You cant do this. I remember once we all got arrested at the drive-in for underage drinking, and the black kids didnt get out and the white kids did. Owing to Deane's mid-South roots and work history, he featured many performers from the ranks of country and western music (e.g., Skeeter Davis, singing "The End of the World" and Brenda Lee singing "Sweet Nothin's"), who then achieved cross-over hits among rock and roll fans. Both entities launche. . It was a fluke. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. It was the times, most remember. It was so painful. That show featured local teens who danced to the hits of the era, although the entire cast was white except for one episode every other Friday for Black kids. Just once. This Committees committee, under the watchful eye of Arlene, chose new members, taught the dance steps, and enforced the demerit system, which could result in suspension or expulsion. Originally aired 11/5/1986. It was broadcast for two hours a day, six days a week and featured local teenagers dancing to their favorite music played by live bands. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! Almost every rock 'n' roll star except Elvis graced the Deane Show stage. 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